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Crucified With Christ | Episode #419 | Encore Episode #090 · Reflections On The Word With Richard Kay

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  Speaker 1: Great is Thy faithfulness Great is Thy faithfulness Morning by
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  Speaker 1: morning New mercies I see All I have needed thy
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  Speaker 1: hand hath provided. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to today's edition of Reflection on the Word with
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  Speaker 2: Richard Kay. I'm Chuck Christie, and today we are asking
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  Speaker 2: you to spend a few moments of your time with
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  Speaker 2: us each day as Richard shares from God's Word notes, quotes,
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  Speaker 2: and stories, along with some of his own personal experiences,
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  Speaker 2: to confirm for you God's great love for us, that
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  Speaker 2: his compassion for us never fails, and that he has
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  Speaker 2: a great faithfulness toward us in every regard. Now, if
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  Speaker 2: you miss a portion of today's broadcast or would like
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  Speaker 2: to recommend it to a friend, you can hear this
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  Speaker 2: program anytime online at TalkNetworkRadio.com. Well now, here's Richard with
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  Speaker 2: today's reflection.
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  Speaker 3: I have been crucified with Christ. That is, in Him
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  Speaker 3: I have shared His crucifixion. It is no longer I
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  Speaker 3: who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I
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  Speaker 3: now live in the body I live by faith, by
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  Speaker 3: adhering to, relying on, and completely trusting in the Son
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  Speaker 3: of God who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
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  Speaker 3: That is from Galatians chapter 2 in verse 20 from
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  Speaker 3: the Amplified Bible. Paul has made a statement in Galatians
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  Speaker 3: that is very profound. What he is actually stating is
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  Speaker 3: that he is living, but he is also crucified. How
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  Speaker 3: does this happen? Well, he explained in the letter to
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  Speaker 3: the church at Rome what it was that he meant
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  Speaker 3: when he referred to being crucified, dead, and buried, and
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  Speaker 3: then resurrected with the living Lord. But here he is
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  Speaker 3: making a very strong statement. He basically is letting us
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  Speaker 3: know that he is living but he is living a
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  Speaker 3: life that no longer is based on what this world
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  Speaker 3: or this life has to offer him. He is living
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  Speaker 3: the life by faith, by adhering to, relying on, and
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  Speaker 3: completely trusting in the Son of God, who loved me
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  Speaker 3: and gave himself, up for me. This is a very
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  Speaker 3: definitive statement, and we should look at it closely. This
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  Speaker 3: is an element that we want to be able to discuss.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we have looked in many cases where we
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  Speaker 3: have already discussed some of the manifestations of the fullness
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  Speaker 3: of the Spirit. As we have looked, we have seen
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  Speaker 3: all of the representative gifts of the Spirit. And we
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  Speaker 3: have also mentioned the fruit of the Spirit. A life
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  Speaker 3: that is completely surrendered to the Holy Spirit will bear fruit. Now,
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  Speaker 3: what we are referring to here is it will bear
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  Speaker 3: those that have come to Jesus because of our being
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  Speaker 3: used of him to draw others. And this, of course,
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  Speaker 3: is what our primary focus is remaining on this earth.
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  Speaker 3: In many cases, we are faced with whether or not
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  Speaker 3: we are to continue here on this earthly plane. Paul
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  Speaker 3: even stated himself that he would prefer to die, meaning
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  Speaker 3: to go on to be with the Lord in its eternity.
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  Speaker 3: He wanted to be able to address that, but he
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  Speaker 3: said that it is better for him to remain here
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  Speaker 3: in the body of so that he could continue to
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  Speaker 3: be used of God to be able to teach and
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  Speaker 3: to help others grow in Christ Jesus. I want us
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  Speaker 3: to read in the book of Galatians something that is
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  Speaker 3: very little taught within the present body of Christ. I
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  Speaker 3: don't want us to miss that this is a parallel
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  Speaker 3: position in Scripture. He is actually describing what is taking
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  Speaker 3: place when the Spirit of God deals with the old
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  Speaker 3: nature of man. And he says in the fifth chapter
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  Speaker 3: of Galatians, I say then, beginning with the 16th verse,
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  Speaker 3: Walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out
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  Speaker 3: the desire of the flesh. For the flesh desires what
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  Speaker 3: is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is
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  Speaker 3: against the flesh. These are opposed to each other, so
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  Speaker 3: that you don't do what you want. But if you
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  Speaker 3: are led by the Spirit, You are not under the law. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want us to get into the issue of
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  Speaker 3: how he is speaking to Jews that would come to
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  Speaker 3: know the Messiah, although this has a great deal of meaning,
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  Speaker 3: but the thing that he is addressing here is what
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  Speaker 3: we have been delivered from because we are crucified with
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  Speaker 3: Christ Jesus, we now live a life by faith of
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  Speaker 3: the Son of God who gave himself for us. But
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  Speaker 3: he does spell out the works of the old nature.
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  Speaker 3: And what he says beginning in the 19th verse is
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  Speaker 3: the works of the flesh are obvious. And he names
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  Speaker 3: them sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy,
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  Speaker 3: outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing,
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  Speaker 3: and anything similar, about which I tell you in advance,
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  Speaker 3: as I told you before, that those feelings who practice
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  Speaker 3: such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the reason that I'm bringing this into this particular study
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  Speaker 3: is that it is important for us to know what
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  Speaker 3: we have crucified. Because if we continue in these things
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  Speaker 3: and remember, These are the works of the old nature.
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  Speaker 3: This is what we have been delivered from, even though
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  Speaker 3: there is a continual battle that is going on because
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  Speaker 3: the Holy Spirit wants us to be free completely from
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  Speaker 3: all of the subject of the flesh. Our old nature,
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  Speaker 3: described as the flesh, is the leading that takes us astray.
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  Speaker 3: It drives us into these things, sexual immorality. And I
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  Speaker 3: want us to think today where these things are evident,
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  Speaker 3: because the world is becoming very, very promiscuous. If you
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  Speaker 3: look at everything that is showing here, it's saying these
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  Speaker 3: are the works of the flesh, the old nature. the
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  Speaker 3: unredeemed nature of man. Sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousy,
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  Speaker 3: outburst of anger, selfish ambitions are dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing,
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  Speaker 3: and anything similar about which I tell you in advance
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  Speaker 3: as I told you before that those who practice such
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  Speaker 3: things will not inherit the kingdom of God. Now, in
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  Speaker 3: our culture where we have been given much grace in
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  Speaker 3: that we have been loved into a kingdom message that
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  Speaker 3: in some ways does not preach deliverance from our own
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  Speaker 3: old nature. Now, that's not to say that we're not taught,
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  Speaker 3: but how is it applied? How do we continue to
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  Speaker 3: surrender to the Holy Spirit daily? We must do that.
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  Speaker 3: If we recognize that the desire to do the things
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  Speaker 3: mentioned earlier is still evident, then we must confess that
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  Speaker 3: and we must bring those thoughts back into subjection, into surrender,
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  Speaker 3: if you will, to the Lord Jesus. The Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 3: has been provided so that He will lead and guide
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  Speaker 3: us into all truth. The Word of God is truth.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus said, I am the truth. But He said, I'm
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  Speaker 3: the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes
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  Speaker 3: to the Father except through me. And so we have
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  Speaker 3: this comparison. If we are looking at the works of
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  Speaker 3: the flesh or the old nature, and they are evident
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  Speaker 3: in our life, then an examination must take place. We
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  Speaker 3: need to know, are we under the control of the
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  Speaker 3: Holy Spirit? Or are we under our own control? You see, believer,
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  Speaker 3: these are not just the things that are the influence
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  Speaker 3: of the devil. There is an inner enemy. It is
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  Speaker 3: our old nature. Our old nature is in many ways
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  Speaker 3: stronger than that of the external influences of that can
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  Speaker 3: be brought against us. Because it's difficult to die to
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  Speaker 3: that old nature. We have a tendency to rationalize and
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  Speaker 3: to justify the actions that we take. Because we can
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  Speaker 3: even be deluded into thinking that we are actually doing
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  Speaker 3: these things to glorify God. How can that be? Well,
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  Speaker 3: let me give you an example. Earlier in my business career,
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  Speaker 3: I was very strongly led to be used of God,
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  Speaker 3: and I wanted to count for what He desired. And
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  Speaker 3: I felt that He was going to give me great
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  Speaker 3: opportunities to be used of Him. In the business world,
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  Speaker 3: I thought that this meant that I would become a leader,
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  Speaker 3: a achiever, one who could be looked up to. And
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  Speaker 3: in many ways, this actually became the pattern of my
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  Speaker 3: early business career. Because I was looking at the world system, thinking,
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  Speaker 3: that God would honor it. And now I have to
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  Speaker 3: explain the difference. I illustrate it in my own experience.
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  Speaker 3: God is not interested in what we can do for Him. Listen, believer.
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  Speaker 3: He is only interested in what He can do through us.
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  Speaker 2: Richard will be right back in a moment to wrap up.
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  Speaker 2: But if you just joined us, you've been listening to
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  Speaker 2: Reflections on the Word with Richard Kaye. You can hear
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  Speaker 2: this message in its entirety again online, as well as
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  Speaker 2: our theme song, How Great is Thy Faithfulness, from the
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  Speaker 2: America's 25 Favorite Hymns album. Unless otherwise expressed, scriptures are
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  Speaker 2: read from the Holman Christian Standard Bible, which is published
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  Speaker 2: today's message.
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  Speaker 3: You see, there's nothing we can do that will gain
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  Speaker 3: any privilege with God. I'm not speaking of eternal rewards,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm not thinking of what we would claim to
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  Speaker 3: be those things that we have achieved as the works
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  Speaker 3: in the body. I'm talking about doing things our way
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  Speaker 3: to please God. That is a very tough spot, and
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  Speaker 3: how do we find ourselves in the grips of the
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  Speaker 3: work of the flesh. This is not something that we
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  Speaker 3: can cover in one segment, but I want us to
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  Speaker 3: understand there is a statement made that is very difficult
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  Speaker 3: for many in this culture to receive. And that is,
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  Speaker 3: he is stating that as he told them Now, that
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  Speaker 3: is tough because we have been told that it is
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  Speaker 3: not by works. It is by grace and through faith
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  Speaker 3: in God that we are saved, and that is true.
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  Speaker 3: We cannot work our way into heaven, but believer, we
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  Speaker 3: cannot continue in the works of the old nature and
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  Speaker 3: expect a heavenly reward. You need to understand, as I
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  Speaker 3: need to understand, that if we exhibit Those things that
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  Speaker 3: are described. Now, I'm not saying that we're sexually immoral.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that we aren't. I'm just saying that
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  Speaker 3: that does not have to be the focus. But let's
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  Speaker 3: look at what it says about selfish ambitions. What is that?
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  Speaker 3: What are selfish ambitions if not wanting to exalt ourselves
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  Speaker 3: so that God can be pleased? That's dangerous ground, believer.
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  Speaker 3: And we will discuss more of that in tomorrow's segment.
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  Speaker 3: And that is today's Reflection on the Word.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Richard. Join us again tomorrow when we continue
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  Speaker 2: with the next edition of Reflections on the Word with
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  Speaker 2: Richard Kaye. For Richard and the entire team, this is
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Christie saying thanks for listening to this edition of
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  Speaker 2: Reflections on the Word.
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  Speaker 1: Great is thy faithfulness, born unto me. Great is thy faithfulness,
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  Speaker 1: born unto me.